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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Amaranta?

2. Who is outraged by the inbreeding and young marriages?

3. Who becomes lazy and dissipated and plays the accordion?

4. Who criticized this decision the most?

5. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia invent to help with the plague?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jose Arcadio Buendia becomes obsessed with mechanical animals, what do Aureliano and some townspeople do?

2. What happens to the murderer of Aureliano Jose?

3. How do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia learn that Rebeca is related to them?

4. What is Colonel Aureliano Buendia's final request when he is caught and court martialed?

5. How does Ursula help to prevent the marriage of Rebeca and Pietro?

6. What are some of the ailments of Rebeca?

7. What happens after Aureliano Jose after the rejection of his affections?

8. What does Don Apolinar Moscote, a magistrate from the distant government, require that Ursula do for her home, but she then ignores the ruling?

9. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula outcasts in their society?

10. How does the reader know that Colonel Aureliano Buendia has become distant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For many characters in the book, they learn of their fate long before the fate comes to pass. Give three examples of how this has happened to characters in the novel, including a full description of the foreshadowing, the way the character reacted, and whether the fate came true.

Essay Topic 2

How does the banana factory affect the town? Give specific examples as to how the factory affects the town structure, the families, the women, the men, and the progress of Macondo.

Essay Topic 3

Again and again in the novel, a reader sees characters running away from their problems and running away from danger. List three examples in which this happens in the novel as well as why this choice works or doesn't work for the individual characters. Are the characters running out of self preservation or out of fear? Or is there another reason to run away?

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